Vector, I sent an email to the address you specified with a proof of purchase receipt for the mail bundle. A reply was sent back with a download link to the first disk. Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to login to the ftp site for the download, but the download has an estimated download time of anywhere between 8 and 15 hours. Also, the download timed out at least once. Any thoughts?

Seems it could be a possible bad link between your system and the server. But it could also be due to high traffic. These sort of things are a bit tough to pin down, sometimes.

I would recommend using a download application that supports resume. This way if you should get another time out, the application will try again, and pick up where it left off (the good ones do anyways).

The only way I could even get access to the files on the ftp site was through Windows Explorer, not IE7. I even tried using Filezilla. IE7 just kept asking for the username and password even though I repeatedly entered in the correct one. Filezilla just gave me a similar incorrect password error. I know the login info is right because it works in Windows Explorer, but I don't know of any ftp download programs that can resume downloads from Windows Explorer. Guess I just need to be patient and wait for the mailman. Well, thanks for the help anyway.

Just thought to try my Kubuntu pc. Perhaps a linux os will have better luck downloading than Windows.

I also recommend wget. In Windows, the Opera browser will resume downloads if the server from which you're downloading permits this. Firefox 3 is also supposed to do this. I don't know about Firefox 2.x, as I've never tried downloading a large file with it.--GrannyGeek

Ok, I bought the 5.9 SOHO release and installed it on my Dell 400 XPS desktop. I'm used to Zenwalk (another Slackware based distro) so it shouldn't take too long to become familar with the VL way of doing things.I just need to install the nVidia drivers on my system and I should be on my way. The MacOS theme looks very nice.

During setup you can install Nvidia drivers. Seems that you're already onto a desktop, where you can download the latest drivers from Nvidia and install.

You can also install the included drivers, by dropping down into run level 3 (init 3), when you're done there, you can return to run level 4 (init 4).

either way should be a breeze

Yeah, I downloaded and installed nvidia's drivers and installed them. I'm currently having an issue with audio now. I fixed it once by selecting my Audigy card from within the alsamixer menu, but it forgot that setting after I rebooted my PC and now audio is just dead even after I select it from the alsamixer gui screen.Is there an alsaconfig type program within VL?? The Alsa setup from the VL control panel doesn't even launch.

Thanks for the advice earlier. I forgot that I had rewritten the mbr to Windows 2000 default. To access Kubuntu I would have had to use a boot disk. Luckily, I was able to use a pc at work. It was using Free Download Manager. It worked like a charm in getting the isos. I'll try to remember wget after I finish installing Vector. Might come in handy.

Good deal. Glad that you were able to download it. Now you'll have loads of Gui applications that are readily available to use for downloading (after installation of course), one of them being Kget, and another being gftp .

Thank you for all of the work that went into 5.9 SOHO!I installed it last Monday and so far there was only one problem, but that was easy to fix. VL-hot did not work, but HAL does. Neither worked with VL 5.9 Standard Deluxe, though.

I have had problems in the past with other distros too, and I believe it's a motherboard issue. It's a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9.